Question?

[Berke48864]

ok my bro burnt (Starski and Hutch) on DvD and it plays on my moms and his dvd and he said it was a vcd? whats that mean?he sayed the new dvd players have somthing in them that plays it?

 

[VIAN]

VCD (Video Compact Disc) is a format just like DVD. DVD looks better though I think.

 

[Berke48864]

it looked ok quality but who knows man thanks for the feedback!

 

[videoclone]

VCD is generally poorer quality then DVD and is used by bootleggers so they can sell off there pirated movies on 2 Standard CD?s rather then 1 DVD disk ( the streets of china are a classic example ) ? Most DVD players can read these CD-R?s with the VCD movies on them, Because they are in the raw Mpeg format. This means DVD players hooked up to your TV do not hafta do any decripting or decoding to play the file.

AVI is the better of the two formats but it is allot newer and requires decoding only a select few DVD players will run .AVI format video ie: Kiss DVD player does I don?t know of any others

But of course PC?s Will run any format so long as you have the required Codac?s
Xvid, DivX,

A good place to get anything related to video editing and video format information is doom9 Good luck with your adventure into the land of DVD and related formats hope this helped.

 

[Wuzup101]

Lol... it might not be a good idea to talk about pirated DVD's on message boards like this. Not that I have anything against it personally - just pointing out that you could have asked the ? w/o putting that part in there.

BTW... doom9.org is an awesome site (as videoclone said). Check out DVD Shrink if you want a really easy program and have a DVD writer

 

[Incomplete]

But, There is a huge difference between a VCD and a SVCD, a SVCD has right around the same quaility as a DVD, thats why i burn all my movies in that format since i only have a CD burner...

 

[Wuzup101]

I personally like Divx myself Though I burn backups as normal DVD

 

[Childs]

Check out this site for more info on all things video.

BTW, professionally made VCDs look pretty good. You shouldn't use cam bootlegs as the reference. And the main benefit is that they play on DVD players, and the video is DVD compliant (if you stick to the standard specs).